The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of tho Senate and the House
of Representatives.

REsoLuTross OF the Kansas Legislature for
the opening of the territory OF Oklahoma were
presented In the Senate on the 7th. The Senate
passed twenty House bills. Among them wero
tho bill TO amend the act OF Feb. ~, 1855. 70
prohibit the importation and Immigration of
foreigners and aliens under contract 10 perform
labor and the bill to amend section OF the act
OF June 10, 1880 in relation 70 immediate
transportation Of dutiable goods. The Sem
ate also passed bills to encourage the
manufacture of steel for modern army and
navy ordnance and TO erect gun factories at
Watervliet Arsenal and the Washington Navy
Yard The sum OF sZtOOO,000 is appropriated
for these purposes. memorial OF the National
Board of Trade in favor OF IA general bankruptcy
law presented. Senator ingalls, resolution
regarding the rejection by the Senate OF Mat
thews tcoloredl TO be Recorder OF DEEDS OF the
District of Columbia adopted by q
party vote of 26 TO Is. The President sent
the following nominations TO the Senate Il. @.
Lore, of Missouri To be Consul General at
the City OF Mexico. J. NJ. Needham Of Frank
lin, Ind, to be agent for the Indians OF the
Lemhi agency. in Idaho. Mrs. Margaret M.
Tyrrell 10 be postmistress OF Akin, Franklin
County, III. The House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
passed bills granting right OF way through In
dian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Ne
braskn Railway, and appropriating $1,000
for the completion of the public build
pected that Speaker Carlisle would
recognize Judge Kelley or some other
member to move to suspend the rules ana pass
a bill aboli shing the tax on tobacco We're disap-
pointed The Spe aker. in his correspondence
with Mr.. Randall in reference 70 getting before
the House a revenue measure, plainly intimated
that he would OF give recognition 70 any men,
Der to pass, under suspension Of the rules, any
bill to change the internal revenue la VS. that
did not include changes in the customs laws,
and to those gentlemen who on the 7th lust APP
piled for recognition To mike such n MOTION the
Speaker gave respectful but positive refusal
MEMORIAL OF citizens Of New Lebanon,
Ohio, asking the initiation of negotiations for
the acquisition of Canada was presented in
lie al
for the settlement of accounts with the Mobile
and Ohio Road, to prohibit any agent OF the
Government from hiring out the labor OF
prisoners and TO ascertain the extent and
value OF the vessel fisheries OF the United states.
The President sent the following nominations
of postmasters to tue Senate AT Aurora,
Ind, Sanford q. Given; Chenoa. ILL.,, sylvanus
Chapman; Earlville, H.. Berkeley G. Barratt;
Monroe, Mich, Henry r. Noble; Plainwell,
Ezra 4. Glover, Jr. Fort Howard, Wis, Peter
" Cottrell Benicia, Cal, William III. Foreman;
Buffalo. Wyoming, Leollie simmons; Butte
City, Montana, Patrick Talen. The House
of Representatives passed bills To indem-
nifty certain Cinnamon for losses sustained
by a mob at Rock Springs Wyo., and TO pro.
hi bit the importation Of opium by any subject
OF the Emperor Of China; for public building
ut Houston. to cost SIS 09O and TO grant the Seal
Rocks to the city of san Francisco. Addresses
eulogstic Of the deceased Representatives from
New York were delivered by Messrs. Millard,
Van Eaton, Felix Campbell. and others.
MEMORIAL services in honor OF the late Gen.
eral John a. Logan were nelu III inc SeIhto Oh
the 9Th inst The Senate chamber packed
with attentive listeners-Mrs Logan and fam
ily being among the number. Fifteen members
delivered touching eulogies on the lie and SER
vices of the dead Senator. In the House Of Rep
resentatives eulogistic addresses relative TO
the death OF the late Congressman Price OF
Wisconsin were delivered by Representatives
Caswell Thomas of Wisconsin, Hudd, Petit
bone, Henderson OF Iowa. and Breckenridge OF
Kentucky. The House passed q bill authorizing
the Fort Worth and Denver Road to lay track
propriating SCI 10000 for coast defenses and
gun foundrios were sent by the House TO the
Committee on Appropriations.
JOINT resolutions of the Republican members
OF the Indiana Legislature were presented in
the Senate on the 10th inst, protesting against
the validity of the election of David Turpie
United States Senator. The Senate amended
and passed House bills relating TO the importing
of mackerel caught during the spawning sea:
son. and for the erection OF a branch Soldiers
Home west OF the Rocky Mountains, as
also Senate measure giving right OF
way through the Ceur dAlene reserva-
ton to two railways UnfavoraOle reports
were made on bills for a sub-treasury at Louis
Vile and for the erection of II Federal prison.
bill was reported for the division of the State
of Illinois into judicial districts Senator Gull
lom introduced bill providing that pri soner
shall be debarred from receiving patent nor
any patent DO declared invalid by reason of its
having been first patented In a foreign country,
unless il has been introduced into public use in
the United States for more than two years prior
following nominations to the Senate: Post
master-At Mhlinburg, Pa, Cyrus A. Eaton;
Houtzdale Pa, q. w. Dickey; Lewisburg, Pa,
William Himmelright: Brownsville, Tenn,
Daniel Bond. To be Register of Land Office,
Samuel f. Byrne, Mt Marquette, Mich. To be
Indian agents, at Fort Belknap agency, Mon
tana, Edwin c. Fields, Of Maryland; Colorado
River agency, Arizona George w. Busey, OF
Illinois The House of Representatives passed
bills approprating S575, oO0for public building
at Denver, and granting railroad rigbt-of-way
across the TT Douglas military ref srvaton, Utah.
SENATOR STANFORD introduced Il bill ia the
Senate on the llth inst. to provide mortars and
heavy guns for the armament OF the forts, coast
defenses, and vessels of the United states
Bills were passed to repay Thomas A. Osborn,
formerly Marshal Of Kansas, $500 public
money lost by him through tn failure of pri-
vute bank 10 give the State OF California Ave
per cent. of the net proceeds OF land sales with
in her limits and To grant niilroad rights of
way through several Indian reservations
resolution was passed by the Senate calling
on the Secretary OF the Interior for information
rs t. tn existence of rule in the Pension
Office whereby hearings are refused 10 Hppli-
cauts because they have applied to Congress
Tor relief message WAS received from the
President transmitting without his approval the
dependent pension bill The House passed
thirty-hvc pens'on b'lls.